Re: Emacs removes whitespaces at the end of lines

From:

Tassilo Horn

Subject:

Re: Emacs removes whitespaces at the end of lines

Date:

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:37:17 +0200

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

"F. Unglaub" <address@hidden> writes:
Hi!
> I use emacs with mutt and slrn (post-mode) and noticed that
> whitespaces at the end of lines are auto-removed. This leads to
> problems, for example, with the signature delimiter "-- \n". In my
> case it's reduced to "--\n" which certain newsreaders like tin
> consider wrong.
All newsreaders should consider it wrong, cause it is, well, wrong. :-)
Back to the problem: Normally, emacs should not do that, so I guess
that's something you (or your sysadmin) configured. Something like:
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
So grep your ~/.emacs and the files in the site-lisp directory for
`delete-trailing-whitespace'.
Bye,
Tassilo